Any O/O running rollbacks?

Those type of trucks normally belong to equipment rental outfits and deliver their equipment to customers who have rented it. Not seeing where there would be a “freight” market for it unless you’re going to start an equipment rental business.

 

Roll backs haul everything around here, including small buildings. There are even a couple of heavy tandem rollbacks that haul some bigger equipment.
The guy I am leased to hauled all of the equipment for the local united rental outfit, before they closed down.

 

@rolls canardly

 

Currently enjoying downtime with a broken front spring, and in no hurry to fix it. Maybe Monday.
Holiday mode is kicked in, and I am enjoying friends and family currently.

I should have started a scrapbook of pictures of all the crazy sh## I had on my trucks since 1983.
I'm currently on my seventh Rollback, and possibly my last.

A home heating oil delivery truck,
A 18 pass. shuttle bus,
A Cat bulldozer that may have been a little overweight (He, He)
Mini Excavator that I had to go 12 miles around a low railroad bridge to deliver.
Numerous buildings, one was a open front shed 12 X 20 that I put cribbing across to bridge the width, Built up the center for support w/2 X 12, on it's own cribbing across to support roof center.
Both of my 20 foot containers that I got for storage.

Long story, but I got two 10X40 fuel oil tanks from the owner when Mt. Airy Hotel closed down,
B4 they sold it to build the new Casino.
Frank says - "You can have those tanks, also." (I think he didn't think I could take them, actually.)
So when he left, I started @5 ft. - halfway up, and went all around both tanks w/torch..
Then I cut both in half around the center, leaving 4 segments, top 2 sitting up on edges of bottom 2.
Went to end - and wacked top one, on the corner edge, w/sledgehammer - hard.
Top half went around, and nested perfectly in bottom half. I Couldn't believe it worked.
20 ft. long, and 10 ft dia. steel made a sound like it would have killed you, if it somehow went wrong.
Did the same to the other end of both tanks - so four times - and all sections now nested on ground.
Unbelievable!
So I cut into both bottom center edges of one side, to put hook in and pull both up on truck.
Once those two were on, I did the same to the remaining two nested sections on other ends.
So sheet metal of that size gets floppy, and the open ends on the back were laying out almost flat??
What to do? I cut holes on the ends, and pulled in with a come along, back to the 10 ft. diameter.
Down Rt. 80 I went, with a flag on the come along for effect.

So frank came back Monday, and must have scratched his head,
as to how one guy, and one 20 ft truck, made that happen.

 

So short answer, yes, there's money to be made if you hussle,
I've done numerous singles, and doubles from several different Auto Auctions.
I've Moved machinery, even moved a guys entire printing business to another location.
Downside is fuel costs and insurance for the "On Hook" coverage portion of the Insurance policy.